Washboard



Aug. 7, E923. 3,464,437

. K. MARCH WASHBOARD Filed March 21, 1919 Summtoz Patented Aug. 1923..v

-"ras KATE MARCH, 0 EErEEsoiv orrY, TENNESSEE.

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Application filed March 21, 1919. Serial No. 284,033.

of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in Washboards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in wash-boards, and particularly to the provision in a wash-board of a soap-holder, constructed for the convenient retention .of the soap therein, and provided with means for draining any fluid which may find its way into the holder back onto the washing surface of the board.

The improved board is provided with a soap-holder openingthrough the surface or face of the wash board, with the interior dimensions of such holder, slightly in excess of the dimensions of the opening, toprovide a soap retaining ledge at the forward edge of the holder. A movable strip is provided which may be arranged to bridge the opening of the soap-holder, or be moved to a position to entirely clear such opening, such strip providing additional means to prevent accidental discharge of the soap from the holder, even when the wash-board is in any unusual position.

The soap holder is formed with a drainage opening or openings in that portion which is approximately lowest when the 'board is in use, and these openings communicate with openings in the washing surface of the board, to thereby drain all fluid from the holder.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of the improved wash board.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged broken sectional View showing the retaining strip in operative posit-ion with relation'to the soap holder.

The improved wash-board is here shown, as comprising legs 1, between which is secured and supported a backing, section 2. The face of such section 2 is provided with the usual corrugated washing section 3; or, if preferred the section 2 may be omitted and the washing section alone used.

The legs 1, are gradually increased in width from a point approximately midway their lengths, and support a top strip 4: which at the forward edge projects beyond the washing surface as at 5, to prevent the water from splashing over the top of the board when the board 1s in use.

The board, as is usual, presents a plain section 6 above the corrugated washing sec.- tion 3, and this section is formed with an opening 7 for the soap holder. This holder is in the form of a box like member 8, se cured to the rear face of the section 6, so that the open front of the holder surrounds the opening 7. The length and width of the box is slightly greater than the similar dimensionsof the opening, so that when the boX is in place, the edge of the opening provides a ledge 9 entirely around the box edge and within the same to prevent accidental discharge of the contained soap, as will be obvious.

A retaining strip 10, preferably of metal is pivoted at 11to the face of the section 5 of the board, midway the length of the opening 7. This strip is adapted to be -move d across the opening 7 when desired,

to thus effectively close said opening against the discharge of the soap. A screw 12 receives and temporarily secures the one end of the strip 10, when in soap-retaining position, a pin 13, being secured in the section 5, to receive and hold the free end of the strip 10 when the latter has been moved to an inoperativeposition.

The bottom of the soap holder is formed with drainage openings 14, and these openings are preferably located adjacent the rear wall of the holder, which is, of course, the lowest part of the holder when the washboard is in use. These openings 14 communicate, through tube-like channels, or tubes 15 with openings 16 in the face of the corrugated washing section 3, so that water from the soap holder may be drained back onto the washing surface, to prevent undue waste of the soap.

The arrangement of the pivoted end of the retaining strip, and of the means for. temporarily securing the free end of such strip in soap retaining relation to the holder, as well as the drainage openings 16 in the washing section 3, are to be constructed and arranged, as shown, with particular regard not only to their stated function, but so that the clothing rubbed over the washing'section 8 will not be injured.

The invention having been what is claimed as new and useful is:

A wash board formed above the washing described,

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surface With an opening, a box like holder to hold the said strip in aposition unobsecured to said board and in said opening, strncting the said opening, and a screw env a retaining strip having a pivotal connecgaged 'With the boardand which {may be intion at one terminal With the board above serted through the perforation in the retain- 5 the opening and swingable to and from a ing strip to secure the latter in spanning re- H5 position spanning the said "opening, a "pin lation to the said opening. carried by the board above the said opening In testimony whereof she affixes her sigand to one side oi the pivotal connection of nature. I the retaining strip and adapted to enter a 10 perforation formed in one end of the latter 3 KATE MAR-CH. 

